{"product_id":"maimonides-and-the-hermeneutics-of-james-arthur-diamond-9780791452479","title":"Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in the Guide of the Perplexed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2003 Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical\/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book Awards \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the type of hermeneutic that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) engaged in throughout his treatise, The Guide of the Perplexed. By comprehensively analyzing Maimonides' use of rabbinic and scriptural sources, James Arthur Diamond argues that, far from being merely prooftexts, they are in fact essential components of Maimonides' esoteric stratagem. Diamond's close reading of biblical and rabbinic citations in the Guide not only penetrates its multilayered structure to arrive at its core meaning, but also distinguishes Maimonides as a singular contributor to the Jewish exegetical tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Arthur Diamond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791452476\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791452479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James Arthur Diamond","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241096392959,"sku":"9780791452479","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_77c106d6-39b4-434c-9f03-c20086e9e857.jpg?v=1772652694","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maimonides-and-the-hermeneutics-of-james-arthur-diamond-9780791452479","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}